Heal Me (Married To Brother-in-law)

22.

The 'finals' week got away as abruptly as it came. Only one last paper, and Munhee would be done with her undergrad life. Amongst the rest of the days of their stay at Munhee's parent's house, both Munhee and Baekhyun managed to stay as professional  as they could. Which meant less or almost no arguments, no snarky comments thrown  upon  one another, only talking when the topic engaged the kids.

  Amongst all the chaos, Munhee was relieved at one thing, that her mother didn't pry anymore and neither attempted to shove herself in between her and Baekhyun's cold professional treatment towards each other, even though it was almost visible to everyone who would try just a little to notice the details.

Back to the topic of 'Finals will end today finally' , like every other sane student in the world should feel, Munhee didn't feel enthusiastic about it. She'd rather appear on another two or three rounds of finals than go back to Seoul with her professional husband, and be back to her lone life there. Yes, she felt lonelier when she'd be at Baekhyun's house, because even though she had the kids, she didn't have anyone elderly or at least someone adult who would talk to her, who could understand her situation and silently support her through it.

Currently, Munhee was walking out of her examination hall with her both girl friends,  Mina and Nayeon, she couldn't muster up bright smiles and cheers like the other two girls.

"Munhee, you look down, what happened?" Mina asked as she was the first one to observe the unwanted dark clouds wavering over her friend's head.

"Huh?" Munhee was brought out of her saddening thoughts at that,  "Uh nothing! I'm just tired of the all nighters I took for finals." Munhee managed to cover up with the perfect excuse during this situation, and both her friends nodded furiously agreeing to the concept of being tired as well.

"Should we go somewhere and do something fun to celebrate the end of our finals?"  Nayeon suggested with an expectant smile.

"That's a great idea! I can hardly remember the last time we had any hangout together." Mina agreed in a flash. "You will come, right? Don't say no, please! It's always you being a partypooper!"  the girl started whining when she noticed the confusion in Munhee's features.

Actually,  Munhee liked the idea of hanging out. But she wasn't the 'Free to her own will' student anymore. She was a wife now, a mother as well. She just couldn't make spontaneous plans when she had two babies at her house, eagerly waiting for their Mama as she couldn't give them much time during the whole week, and had promised them to rush towards them as soon as her exam would end. Also she had unwillingly agreed to Baekhyun this morning when he told her that they'll be heading back to Seoul  today. That meant she needed to reach at her house as soon as possible, mostly to start her and her babies' packing.

"Hey! You look lost again, are you really okay?" Nayeon asked, concerned at the lost look on Munhee's face. 

"I'm... okay. I'd love to hangout with you two, it's really been a long time since the last time we did it..." Now that Munhee said it on her own, she did realize that she had never been on much hangouts with the girls as she had devoted her free times, even her class times to her boyfriend  Sehun. Suddenly she felt bad for not giving her friends much time, and now she felt another layer of guilt as she was going to refuse them because of her husband Baekhyun.  "But...I'm uhh really tired. I don't think I can travel far to go anywhere other than my house. Sorry!" the girl managed to make up her excuse. However, she regretted immediately when both of the girls' expectant faces fell.

"Actually you're right. We're all pretty tired to go somewhere far from here to have fun. But why don't we just hangout in the cafeteria? I mean hangouts are hangouts as long as you're with your friends, place doesn't matter. Right?" Nayeon offered with another bright smile.